A Welcome in February 2009
In February 2009, we welcomed the following new contributors to this site :
Peter E Hall
George Morey
Neil Pickup
Isaac Abraham
Click on the names above to see that person’s poem(s), or browse some selected first efforts below :
Call It Football, Not Soccer
I’m talking with my friends one day
And one of them starts talking about soccer
‘Soccer?’ I say
‘I would pay anything to make that horrid word go away’
‘Then what do you call it?’ they ask
I look at them with a blank look on my face’
And I say at a very slow pace.
Football
They look at me like I’m a comedian that has just told a funny joke
And then they say to me ‘Bloke, what are you going on about?’
Then I start to pout
And then shout ‘Mates call it football not soccer’
© Isaac Abraham
I go to an American school and I started to get sick of people calling football ‘soccer’ so i wrote this poem
Chester City 0 Exeter City 0
It’s 10 in the morning
On the Motorway
Junctions, Cones and Roadworks
Any conceivable delay
165 miles of driving
To an industrial estate
Past Tesco, Aldi, Jeep and Chrysler
The Deva Stadium; The West Stand
Standing in Wales, singing to England
But Hearing nothing back
Then it begins; a vacuum
90 minutes, no chance
But 470 away fans
Are louder than 1200 hosts
Not before time, it’s over
Back onto the roads
Past Chrysler, Jeep, Aldi and Tesco
Eating Service Station Food
What else is there you could have done
With these 11 hours instead?
You’d do it all again though
Cause 0-0’s one more point
We’re all in it together
Players, Fans and Club
Next time will be different
Cause City’s going up
© Neil Pickup
This is what 0-0 drives you to.
Not Waking The Dead
The Twerton faithful
Congregate for the game.
A flag proclaims
The oppositions name.
A dour scrappy tussle,
Atmosphere as dead
As the magpie on
The rafter overhead.
Second half starts better
With Stripes streaming forward.
Nimble Gilly nicks a goal
Calmly getting his reward.
Weston have a mare.
A clumsy tackle sees
The captain given red.
Their fighting spirit flees.
How city only score three
Is a mystery, a crime.
A zealous lino denies one
Others fail to cross the line.
A modest roar swells as
The final whistle’s heard.
But not loud enough
To wake the dead bird.
© Peter E Hall
The match was Bath City v Weston Super Mare
Tuesday 24th February 2009
I once went on a trip
I once went on a trip,
Some people might remember,
For the final of a cup run,
Which started around December.
At first a game against Walsall,
Down at the Den,
We beat them by 2 goals to 1,
So we didn’t have to play again.
We then faced a trip,
Up to lovely Telford,
But little did we know then,
We’d soon be playing at old Trafford.
Victories against Burnley,
And a hard fought 1 at Tranmere,
Led us to Old Trafford,
Which was more of a dream than a nightmare.
Because we beat Sunderland by
1 goal to nil,
Which took us on a trip to the south of Wales,
The stadium we did fill.
We all know that we were robbed,
On that memorable day,
But what a great time we had,
The 22nd of May.
I once went on a trip,
Some people might remember,
For the final of a cup run,
Which started around December.
© George Morey
Millwall reaching the F.A. Cup final 2004
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19th November 2023 at 1:45 pm
Thanks Gacina, glad you liked it, and I have just posted a new one about our points deduction…
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7th November 2023 at 6:34 pm
Today B.B.C post on F.B was titled:Premier League reduced to 18 clubs? I really think it may be interesting to see if this would be Everton’s nightmare and this poem is well suited for this concern.If there would be more difficult battle to stay if there were 18 teams.Great poem and somehow true.
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6th November 2023 at 4:43 pm
Ashington FC have launched a £50,000 Crowdfunder appeal to meet the increased costs of winning promotion last season, to pay for urgent stadium improvements, travel costs and equipment
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31st October 2023 at 4:26 pm
‘Three Teams Worse Than Us’ from our Toffee friend Denys in Italy, also sums up how FGR fans currently feel. Yes, in our case, with two going down to the Conference, it could be entitled ‘Two Teams Worse Than Us’, but three would make us feel even safer.
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6th October 2023 at 11:49 pm
Enjoy it while you can, although I’m sure Mbappe could well be bound for St James
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2nd October 2023 at 1:52 pm
There still remains a magic about the early rounds of the FA Cup that the premier league / internationals can never match.
Coventry Sphinx v Leicester Nirvana sounds so much more than a tale of two cities etc. etc.
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24th September 2023 at 5:14 pm
Very accurate indeed!
Palace home for me is always a tough journey as well. From the wilds of west London to Selhurst is a random journey into the unknown.
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20th September 2023 at 1:37 pm
Lovely stuff for one of the best.
We love him to death down at the Palace.
I’ll post my Roy poem a bit later. You’ve inspired me to finish it.
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19th September 2023 at 5:06 pm
I’d like to think some of my scarves might get passed down the generations, but can’t see some of the “quality merchandise” I have making much past my son’s generation. They’ll fall apart before he even has kids, I reckon!
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7th September 2023 at 2:43 pm
Very true Crispin. Thanks!
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